What was the best additive or food you offer to your zoa tank?
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A. Grandis
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Well, zoanthids like that heavy nutrient water for a while anyway. Skimmer is still the best help we have for any artificial marine system in my opinion. Without the skimmer the system gets saturated and things get out of hand.
I feed my tank mysis shrimps, copepods and krill. I also feed Coralife invert food once a week. I've got an ATB skimmer that goes nuts after the feeding.
I'm searching for THAT additive.
Still waiting for anyone to talk about amino acids and other vitamins besides vitamin C...
Thanks a lot for the posts above! Hope this can keep going for the best.
Please post yours!
Grandis.
I feed my tank mysis shrimps, copepods and krill. I also feed Coralife invert food once a week. I've got an ATB skimmer that goes nuts after the feeding.
I'm searching for THAT additive.
Still waiting for anyone to talk about amino acids and other vitamins besides vitamin C...
Thanks a lot for the posts above! Hope this can keep going for the best.
Please post yours!
Grandis.
MikeandNicole
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For palys I target feed with Rods Food, have gotten very good growth out of that. I don't dose any one thing for zoas but I do add vit C and selcon to my food when I feed each day.
A. Grandis
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Yes, but I never used. Have you? Anyone?
If so, what product?
I believe would be interesting to try the Reef Booster.
Their web site claims the product has: phospholipids, amino acids, omega-3 marine fatty acids, vitamins, carotenoids and more.
They are still modifying the formula, to improve even more the product.
Like any invert food would be better to add when lights are off (when cnidarians open their polyps) and skimmer off for a while, so the cnidarians and filter feeders can enjoy without loosing for the skimmer.
We could feed it to the live brine shrimp and give to the fish also, I believe.
Maybe someone else can add...
Thanks for mentioning, 650-IS350!:thumbsup:
Grandis.
SIR PATRICK
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Prodibio- Great pro biotic system!
I am running a bacteria driven system- but taking the brightwell aproach- same concept, for the most part- different system.
Heavy feedings keep the tank nutrient rich, and the system keep the tank clean- all at the same time! My polyps are loving it!!
I am running a bacteria driven system- but taking the brightwell aproach- same concept, for the most part- different system.
Heavy feedings keep the tank nutrient rich, and the system keep the tank clean- all at the same time! My polyps are loving it!!
A. Grandis
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Thanks MikeandNicole!
I never heard about Rods Food. Is that a brand?
How do you add to the food?
I believe the only way to securely add to the food would be offering the product to any living organism (brine shrimp), to feed that organism first, then feed the organism to the polyps or fishes. Other wise it would just be lost in the water anyways when you add to the tank. Even when you freeze the food, when it melts most will be lost, because the product will melt.
Am I wrong?
Grandis.
Friday Night
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Was just about to ask if anyone was using it.. got to the thread to late... what i have read looks legit...
returnofsid
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Rod's Food is a brand of frozen food. I feed Rod's Food Original, Rod's Coral Food, Rod's Herbivore diet. Other than frozen Cyclopeeze, and an occasional dose of Coral Frenzy, I almost exclusively feed Rod's Food.
http://www.rodsfood.com/
MikeandNicole
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Rods food is a brand, do a google search for it. We just soak the food in it and it picks some of it up. Brightwells's Vitamin C, Amino Omega, and selcon all state in the directions to just soak the food in the stuff for 5 minutes or so. Is it the most efficient way? Probably not, but it works. I feed the fish in the tank and then come back later and shoot some of "juice" and small chunks into the paly heads. They close right around it. I grew out nuclear greens from about 5 polyps to around 35-40 in less than a year, Captain Americas palys from 6 to 17 since October, and purple deaths from 3-5 polyps to about 20 in less than a year. Zoos I did not have as much luck with in that tank and moved them out.
A. Grandis
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Good stuff you guys are posting!
I was thinking about how much could we mix of those food/suplements in our tanks.
Grandis.
I was thinking about how much could we mix of those food/suplements in our tanks.
Grandis.
OckMed
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I think all you have to do for a healthy reef of any kind off coral is do water changes. I have a 20 gallon long with a hob filter, T5 lights and 2 korilla power heads. I do 5 gallons every 4 days and I haven't had a better grow rate. Some cypopease and water changes will do a reef good.
A. Grandis
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No, I'm sorry, but water changes are not all we have to do for a healthy reef of any kind off coral. There is a lot more to add to it.
Well, water changes are just something that we all should do and I don't think we should talk about what salt to use, or about natural salt water.
We should bring here the additives and foods to help keep zoas.
But, thanks for remind us about the so important partial water changes.
Grandis.
Mordoff
Member
You can have a very healthy reef with just water changes. Some people never add additive but instead just do weekly water changes. So Im sorry, but water changes are a big part of keeping a healthy reef. Foods and additives just add that little extra nutrients.
A. Grandis
Active member
BIG, not ALL.
You like to do only water changes?
Well, just keep doing it for a while and you'll see.
Please read again my last post regarding water changes to understand what I mean really.
Thanks for your post.
Grandis.
